I'm a human by birth.Though many might describe me as a Christian, being born into a Christian household doesn't in actual fact make you a Christian!
Christianity is one of those Choice religions I should say. In comparison a Hindu is a follower of Sanatana Dharma, Hinduism is also a cultural form of living. So one can be born into it and remain in it without having to go through an initiation ceremony or anything such. One is a Hindu by virtue of birth. The Jewish religion and Jews too are similar--one is born a Jew and is culturally a Jew as well. One doesn't choose(mostly) to be a Jew but is one by virtue of birth.
I can only truly be a Christian if I understand who Jesus Christ is and what it is that He came to do. This knowledge is neccessary for me to be His follower (or Christian) in the true sense of the world. To become a follower of Christ is a conscious decision I need to make.
To make this decision I need to make sense of who He is and what His role was on earth. I shall attempt to explain as clearly as I can over the next few blogs, so bear with me.
God or the supreme creator of the universe exists from beyond time. He is existance itself. The bible tells us of the darkness that was the earth. It also tells us of the fallen angels that were thrown into the darkness.
It was into this earth that God created the birds of the sky and the fishes of the sea. It was into this earth that God created man. We call the first man Adam. When God created man he created Him with one unique quality. He gave man free will, a will to choose what to do.
God loved His creation. He loved Adam and mankind too. God desired that man would choose to love God with his own free will. God forbade Adam and his companion, the woman to eat from the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil. This was because if they ate from this tree God knew that from that moment on they would have to use their free will to decide and differentiate between good and evil every second of the day. Every decision would become difficult as we can well see in our own day to day life--we are confronted with the truth that our conscience presents to us and the evil that is often neccesary to get ahead in life.
But God also knew that if Man of His own free will choose to obey Gods commands, then he would always be able to walk in the presence of God in paradise. God also desired that the love man would have for God would be the light that would dispel the darkness of the earth.
But alas it was not to be.
Satan knew that man loving His God and submitting to the will of the Father would bring about satans destruction. So he used his innate cunning to get man to disobey God. As a result they had to be banished from paradise.
Christianity is one of those Choice religions I should say. In comparison a Hindu is a follower of Sanatana Dharma, Hinduism is also a cultural form of living. So one can be born into it and remain in it without having to go through an initiation ceremony or anything such. One is a Hindu by virtue of birth. The Jewish religion and Jews too are similar--one is born a Jew and is culturally a Jew as well. One doesn't choose(mostly) to be a Jew but is one by virtue of birth.
I can only truly be a Christian if I understand who Jesus Christ is and what it is that He came to do. This knowledge is neccessary for me to be His follower (or Christian) in the true sense of the world. To become a follower of Christ is a conscious decision I need to make.
To make this decision I need to make sense of who He is and what His role was on earth. I shall attempt to explain as clearly as I can over the next few blogs, so bear with me.
God or the supreme creator of the universe exists from beyond time. He is existance itself. The bible tells us of the darkness that was the earth. It also tells us of the fallen angels that were thrown into the darkness.
It was into this earth that God created the birds of the sky and the fishes of the sea. It was into this earth that God created man. We call the first man Adam. When God created man he created Him with one unique quality. He gave man free will, a will to choose what to do.
God loved His creation. He loved Adam and mankind too. God desired that man would choose to love God with his own free will. God forbade Adam and his companion, the woman to eat from the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil. This was because if they ate from this tree God knew that from that moment on they would have to use their free will to decide and differentiate between good and evil every second of the day. Every decision would become difficult as we can well see in our own day to day life--we are confronted with the truth that our conscience presents to us and the evil that is often neccesary to get ahead in life.
But God also knew that if Man of His own free will choose to obey Gods commands, then he would always be able to walk in the presence of God in paradise. God also desired that the love man would have for God would be the light that would dispel the darkness of the earth.
But alas it was not to be.
Satan knew that man loving His God and submitting to the will of the Father would bring about satans destruction. So he used his innate cunning to get man to disobey God. As a result they had to be banished from paradise.
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